Tropical storm forms off Baja, California

By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 11:02 a.m. HST, Jul 30, 2013
LAST UPDATED: 02:31 p.m. HST, Jul 30, 2013

COURTESY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

This image shows the 5-day track forecast for Tropical Storm Gil.

National Hurricane Center

This satellite image shows two storms forming off the Mexican coast and heading west.

National Hurricane Center

The five-day track of Gil has it briefly growing into a hurricane later this week.

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A tropical storm has formed off of Baja, California, and is moving west toward the Central Pacific.

Tropical Storm Gil, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, is about 815 miles south-southwest of Baja and is headed west-northwest at 15 mph on a trajectory that could bring it into the Central Pacific next week.

The earliest Gil could enter the Central Pacific would be Monday or Tuesday, according to Tom Brichard, a senior forecaster at the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. But he stressed it is too early to predict any possible effects for Hawaii.

Because the storm is still in the Eastern Pacific, it is being tracked by the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

The current 5-day forecast shows Gil strengthening into a hurricane by Friday but weakening back to a tropical storm over the weekend as it nears the Central Pacific.

Behind Gil, another storm system is forming and has a 40 percent chance of strengthening into a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is moving west at 15 mph and is about 750 miles south of the tip of Baja.

The two storms come on the heels of the former Tropical Storm Flossie which gave the islands a glancing blow Monday. The storm brought heavy rain and thunderstorms, mainly to Hawaii island and Maui County, as it skirted past the island chain and gradually weakened to a tropical depression, then a post-tropical depression today.

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